Provision of the PGE 2025 allows different levels of the State to carry out operations against fraud and speculation

From the Vice Ministry of Defense of User and Consumer Rights, they indicated that the provision of the General State Budget bill (PGE 2025) has articles ““that seek to put an end to the profiteering and speculation of products in the family basket”.

Jorge Silva, Vice Minister of Defense of User and Consumer Rights, indicated that the aforementioned provision allows “that State institutions, called mayors, called institutions at the departmental level and at the national level, can control and supervise this productive chain that is focused on profit and speculation”.

The seventh additional provision of the PGE 2025 “empowers thecompetent entities, activate control, inspection, confiscation and/or confiscation actions of products, to food marketing actors who store or retain and/or attempt to increase food prices.”

According to Silva, with this provision all levels of government of the State will have legal support to carry out control operations and the products that are seized will be sold at a fair price.

“Every time they come out with a higher price, right? And they tell you, no, this is the last thing there will be, next month there will be nothing, there will be no rice, so they are thinking about importing. You go next month and you have more rice and with another higher price and they tell you, no, no, no, this ends in November and so now buy this price because in December it will go up or in January it will go up,” Silva detailed.

He stressed that the article of the provision in the Budget project is that the State institutions, “be they called mayors, be called institutions at the departmental level or at the national level, can control and supervise this productive chain that is focused on profit and speculation”.

The seventh additional provision of the PGE 2025 “facquits the competent entities, activate control, inspection, confiscation actions and/or confiscation of products, from food marketing actors, who store or retain and/or intend to increase their prices.”